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Top Trader: Go Drilling For Large Caps
By Andrew Fisher | 09 Apr 2008 | 02:16 PM ET
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AP

John Burbank of Passport Capital is one of the trading stars on Trader Monthly's list of the best. 

His $4 billion capital fund generated a 200 percent return last year. 

Picks and Pans
What's his secret for effective long-term investing?

"You do your best to stay in the trade, which is a very underrated thing, when you're a longer-term investor," he told CNBC. 

"You have a lot of flows going into physical commodities, and not necessarily equities."

So even looking 12 to 18 months down the road, Burbank does not favor financial stocks. 

Recommendations:

"As a way of expressing our bet on energy, we prefer large-cap drillers, who have tremendous leverage to greater exploration offshore," he said.

His picks in that category are Transocean [RIG  Loading...      ()   ], Seadrill [SDRLF  Loading...      ()   ], and Pride [PDE  Loading...      ()   ].

Disclosure:

Disclosure information for Burbank was not available.

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